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<title>The Energy Daily :: Hot Topics :: Electricity Deregulation</title>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com</link>
<description>Energy Portal</description>
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<copyright>2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:45:45 EST</pubDate>

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<title>Court Backs FERC On MISO’s Grid Cost Allocation Plan</title>
<description>Backing a payment system that more widely spreads financial responsibility for major upgrades of the Midwest grid, a federal appeals court Friday upheld a FERC ruling rejecting complaints that the system unfairly burdens Wisconsin customers and improperly...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1637.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Over Protests, FERC Backs New England Reliability Payments</title>
<description>Overruling numerous generators who wanted larger payments, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday approved a proposal by New England’s grid operator to substantially revise the prices paid to generators who have opted out of the region’s...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1630.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Big Munis Seek Fed Financing Aid</title>
<description>In another sign of the financial crunch’s impact on the utility industry, the chairman of the Large Public Power Council asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week to include the country’s biggest municipal utilities in the federal...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1631.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Michigan Re-Regulates Power Market In Boon For State’s Utilities</title>
<description>  Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm last week signed into law sweeping energy legislation that effectively re-regulates much of the state’s electricity market, guaranteeing that the Michigan’s incumbent utilities will supply 90 percent of...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1539.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>FERC Backs New Western Grid Pricing Plan</title>
<description>In a step toward the type of region-wide grid pricing that the agency has long supported, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved an experimental proposal by eight western utilities to offer hourly, non-firm transmission service across their...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1506.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Cap-and-Trade Needs RTOs—Joskow</title>
<description>In order to curb greenhouse gas emissions efficiently through a national cap-and-trade program, U.S. policymakers will have to complete currently stalled efforts to create a seamless national grid and competitive, wholesale power markets across the country, a...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1493.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>GAO: FERC Must Do Better Job Of Measuring RTO Benefits</title>
<description>The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must find ways to measure whether regional transmission organizations are lowering costs to consumers rather than just asserting that they are providing such benefits, according to a new federal study that says states...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1479.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>New York PSC Gives Iberdrola A Week To Decide On Energy East</title>
<description>Less than one week after issuing its decision, the New York Public Service Commission Tuesday gave Iberdrola and Energy East Corp. one week to decide whether they want to complete their $4.5 billion merger under a new set of conditions set by the panel...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1389.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Southern CEO Reflects Utility’s Softer Style As Challenges Loom</title>
<description>More than a decade ago, when Congress was debating legislation to mandate retail electric competition across the nation, Southern Company led the investor-owned utility effort to block the proposal, arguing that Congress had no business messing with the...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1345.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>FERC Rejects Arizona Pleas On Power Line</title>
<description>In the first such ruling the commission has ever had to make, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month denied requests by Arizona Corporation Commission to stay a pre-filing process for Southern California Edison’s request that FERC...</description>
<link>http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/electricity_dereg/1342.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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